Ballast-car.



W. H. YOST.

BALLAST OAR.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 14, 1912.

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W. H. YOST.

BALLAST GAR.

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BALLAST OAR.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 14, 1912.

Patented Nov. 10, 1914.

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W] T/YESS ES UNITED STATES PATENT-OFFICE. wINrIELD HANCOCK YOS'I, 0FMONTREAL, oUnBnC, CANAnA, AssIGNon TO nonenn BALLAST GAR COMPANY, OFCHICAGO, I LI OIS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 14, 1912. Serial 0. 720,367.-

Patented Nov. 10, 1914.

To all whom it may oncern:

Be it known that I, WINFIELD HANCOCK Yos'r, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, residin at Montreal, in the Province of Quebec,anada, have invented certain new and useful-Improvements inBallast-Cars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the same. v

This invention relates more particularly to ballast cars of the typeadapted to have their loads discharged by the passing of a plowtherethrough and it has for an object to provide the car ends with.improved means for guiding the plow unto the car.

A further object is to provide an improved locking device for the sidedoors I which will be less liable to injury by the material as it isdischarged from the car. F or. further comprehension however of myinvention and of the objects and ad-' vantages thereof reference will,be had to the following description and the appended being all of anyclaims, and tothe accompanying drawings forming part of thisspecification in which similar reference characters indicate the sameparts and wherein;

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the end portion of a ballast car havingthe invention embodied therein, Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof partlybroken away, Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail horizontal section on theline. 33 Fig. 1, Fig. 4 is a transverse View of the car, being partly inend elevation and partly in section on the line 4-4 Fig. 2,

Fig. 5 is a detail vertical section on the.

' substantially vertical throughout the major line 55 Fig. 3, and Fig. 6is a side elevation of the portion of the car shown in; .Fig. '5. Fig. 7is a detail sectional eleva-l tion illustrating particularly the pawlfor1 locking the movable shaft in raised posi sleeves 17, the shaftsbeing here shown as tion.

, The flooring of the car is shown at 1,

sections or doors, are shown at 5 and are hinged at 6 to the toprails7,;these parts ordinary or approved .construction. I

The side stakes 8 supporting the top rails 7 and which form thesupporting members of the side walls are preferably made, as

shown most clearly in Fig. 4, of fish-belly formay be made of pressed orcast metal presenting on their inner sides right. angle .flanges 10by'means of which they are secured 1n the usual manner to the side sills3, ,the main stake members being braced by the angle llOIlS 11 securedby one flange to .the side sills and by the other to the webof the saidmain side stake. member.

As shown clearly at. w in Fig. 3 the side over the edges of the sidestake and insure a tight oint between the doors and stakes.

In order to provide means for properlyedges of the door are checked outto fit side stakes Sand being bodily movable therein, the slotsextending a short distance above'and below the flooring 1 and beingportion of their length but curving inwardly at their lower ends underthe edge of the flooring as shown at-16. Secured upon each of these.shafts are a seriesof hexagonal and the sleeves having correspondinglyformed interiors. These sleeves are located at the points wheretheshafts pass through the stakes that is to say be-,

tween the adjacent doors. Each of these sleeves carries substantiallymidway of its own length a fixed pinion. 18 adapted'to engage with a.rack formed by a series of longitudinally projecting pins 19 secured tothe side stake, so that upon rotation of the shaft it will becaused tomove bodily upward or downward in the slots. Secured upon each of thesesleeves, one between the pinion and each end of the sleeve and inposition to engage the doors, are a pair of hooked fingers 20 which areadapted to engage'the door as it hangs normally in a slightly openposition as shown at the right of Fig. 4 and move it inwardly to allowthe shaft to move upwardly outside the doors, the sleeves when in theupper ends of the slots bearing against the door battens 5 and lockingthe doors against outward movement, the lower edges of the battens 5being beveled as shown to prevent any chance of the sleeves catchingthereon.

Secured to the door battens 5 and projectingoutwardly are small verticalplates 25 having their under side notched as at 26 to form hooks fittingover the sleeves 17 and serving to positively hold the doors againstinward movemen.

As will be readily seen, when the shafts are in a'position to have thedoors hang free they will be underneath the edges of the car flooringand covered thereby, because of the inward curving of the lower ends ofthe slots, the shafts thus being protected from the. load beingdischarged from the car. The shaft is retained in positionin the upperends of the slots and in lockdoor.

ing engagement with the doors by means of pawls 28 pivoted at 29 to thecorner stakes and recessed to present shoulders adapted to engage underthe shafts and prevent downward movement thereof, the shafts be ingreleased by knocking the ends of the pawls to swing the shoulders fromunderneath the shafts.

What I claim is as follows:

1. In a car adapted to discharge material through the side, a side doorand side door locking means including a rolling shaft adapted to lockthe door in closed position andbe moved to release the door, such shaftbeing, when the door is released, out of the pathfof the materialdischarging through the'car side. 7 v

2. In a ballast car, side door locln'ng means including a rolling shaftadapted to travel from a position in contact with the door to a positionunderneath the car floor- In a ballast car having a fixed floor and sidedoor, locking means for such door comprising a rolling shaft adapted tomove from a position below the surface level of the fixed floor to aposition to lock the side 4. In a ballast car, a side door, a memberupon the door and a bodily movable shaft adapted to assume a positionbetween the door and said member to hold such door ing means comprisinga bodily movableshaft adapted to move from a position under the flooringacross the edge of the hatter into locking engagement with the oor.

6. In a ballast car, side dump door looking means comprising a shaftadapted to be moved bodily up and down adjacent the lower edge of thedoor, means for operating such shaft, and" means for guiding such shaftunder the edge of the car flooring when moved downwardly.

7. In a ballast car, side dump door looking means comprising a shafthaving fingers adapted to engage the door inadvance of the shaft, thesaid shaft being adapted to hold the door in closed positionindependently of the said finger.

8. Ina ballast car,s ide dump door locking means comprising a bodilymovable shaft having fingers adapted to engage the door in advance ofthe shaft.

9. In a ballast car, side dump door looking means, comprising, sidestakes having slots extending longitudinally thereof adjacent the loweredges of the doors, a shaft extending lengthwise of the car through thesaid slots, and a rack and pinion engagement between the said shaft andthe car whereby the said shaft may be caused to move bodily into and outof position to lock the said doors against outward movement.

. 10. In a ballast car, side dump doorlocking meanscomprising, sidestakes having slots extending longitudinally thereof, adjacent the loweredges of the doors and curved inwardly at their lower ends, a shaftextending lengthwise of the car through the said slots, and a rack andpinion engagement between the said shaft and the car whereby the saidshaft may be caused to move bodily into and out of position to lock thesaid doors against outward movement.

11. In aballast car, side dump door looking means, comprising, sidestakes having slots extending longitudinally thereof adjacent the loweredges of the doors; and curved inwardly at their lower ends under theside edges of the car flooring, a shaft extending lengthwise of the carthrough the said slot'sfand a rack and pinion engagement between thesaid shaft and the car whereby the said shaft may be caused to movebodily into and out of position to lock the said doors against outwardmovement.

12. In a ballast car, side dump door lookextending lengthwise of the car.through the said slots, means for moving the said .shaft bodily in thesaid slots whereby it may be moved into position to lock the said doorsagainst outward movement, and a.

plurality of fingers carried by the shaft and adapted to engage the doorin advancevof the shaft and move it to closed position.

13. In a ballast car, side dump door locking means comprising, sidestakes having slots extending longitudinally thereof adjacent the loweredge of the doors, a shaft extending lengthwise ofthe car through thesaid slots, means for moving the said shaft bodily in the said slotswhereby it maybe moved into position to'lock the said doors againstoutward movement, and a member upon the door having a hook adapted totake over the shaft tohold the door against inward movement. a

14:. In a ballast car, side dump door locking means comprising, sidestakes having slots extending longitudinally thereof ad- 'jacent thelower edges of the doors, a shaft extending lengthwise of the carthrough the said slots, meansfor moving the said shaft bodily in thesaid slots whereby it may be moved into position to lockthe said doorsagainst outward movement, a plurality of fingers carried by the shaftand adapted to engage the door in advance of the shaft and move it toclosed position, and a member upon the door having a hook adapted totake over the shaft to hold the door against inward movement.

15. In a ballast car side stakes of fish belly form- ,having theirgreatest width adjacent the car flooring the said stakes beinglongitudinally slotted at such points to receive a bodily movable doorlocking shaft.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

WINFIELD HANCOCK YOST.

Witnesses:

ALEX. Comm), AUGUSTUS R. EVANS.

